Saudi Aramco is to build the region's biggest shipyard in a $5.2 billion joint venture with South Korea's Hyundai Heavy Industries and others, the partners said on Wednesday.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged Spanish firms to invest in India, saying the fast-growing country offered "many opportunities" in areas ranging from tourism to energy.

Prices for real estate in Paris are set to reach new records this summer, as buyers -- many of them Britons -- scramble to get their hands on flats in the French capital's most well-heeled districts, a survey of notaries showed on Tuesday.

With oil production at its lowest in years, a total halt in phosphate exports and power generation sharply reduced, Syria's economy is on its knees, government ministers have said. 

Spain's economy minister on Tuesday raised the government's growth forecast for 2017 to "around three percent" from 2.7 percent due to a stronger-than-expected performance at the start of the year.

"We started this year at cruising speed, which indicates growth will be around three percent," Luis de Guindos told lawmakers during a debate on this year's budget.

Most Asian markets fell in holiday-thinned trade on Tuesday, with dealers keeping tabs on a developing scandal around Donald Trump's administration.

Passengers faced a third day of disruption at Heathrow on Monday as British Airways canceled short-haul flights after a global computer crash that unions blamed on the outsourcing of IT services to India.

As a trained nurse, Jose Antonio Torres can help save lives -- but in Cuba's labor market, he finds riding a bicycle rickshaw a surer way to feed his four children.

India must reverse a trend of falling women's participation in the job market if it is to achieve its ambition of double-digit growth, the World Bank said on Monday.

Although Britain's economic growth is ticking along in the run-up to the general election, flat wages and the government's austerity program continue to bite and cause anger among those left behind.

A world away from the glistening skyscrapers of London's City finance district, normal life for some resembles that depicted in last year's Cannes winner "I, Daniel Blake".